On 7/18/12 10:08 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote:
It was much better when this information used to be available easily. Please fix this, Cisco. You didn't need to break it in the first place.
It's hard to fix something, that's not broken. Cisco sells through Partners. Part of the money Partners make is their own set of pricing which they're freely to define. Some decide to rise the pricing of the parts, and lower the pricing of the service, some decide they'll offer you a price from the pricing list and the service separately - but it's Partner choice how they want to conduct business and Cisco commitment to letting Partner protect the investment he made in the training, services and so on in the way Partner chooses to do. As soon as you're so big, that your internal team is autonomous in terms of logistics, integration, installation and maintenance, your level of orders with Cisco will propably anyway give you an option to ask for direct contract, with access to the pricing list and some other benefits. That's fundamental difference from other networking vendors, in the way Cisco operates. Most of the competitors follow similar path, realizing pros of scaling the operation world-wide through Partner network and most of them also don't share publicly the pricing list. Simple as that. -- "There's no sense in being precise when | Łukasz Bromirski you don't know what you're talking | jid:[email protected] about." John von Neumann | http://lukasz.bromirski.net _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
